If such hunters first competed with the larger predators and then replaced them, they may have allowed more young to survive each year, gradually increasing the populations of favored species.
6 h2 f8 H. V- Y" n5 jThe word "favored" is closest in meaning to which of following?
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(B) escaping
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8 n: G" m4 r* A7 F' h" A(D) local
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3 S# z% t( E( {6 e" R, A They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well.0 [( z/ f. ]! ^0 Y
The word "integral" is closest in meaning to which of following?, s! e# `9 P8 X" v; T z
(A) interesting0 l# L+ _# F" h' @0 {
(B) fundamental2 w9 I: p/ {3 ?6 A; ?) g+ [
(C) ornamental A: P4 R6 i+ s3 w9 c1 u
(D) overlooked
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They flourished in Pennsyvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace," its garden full of tulips.
4 c% t$ x# `6 ]The word "flourished" is closest in meaning to which of following?/ b1 f+ A- Q% l y3 ]' H
(A) were discovered
3 c$ Z) T1 ^. o: J9 b2 m: H1 L(B) were marketed
0 [, \- a5 U) V5 ~1 [(C) combined
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Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter of the following year grumbled that they were all dead.
2 _" @' f: {8 s2 F$ e EThe word "grumbled" is closest in meaning to which of following?& N) J4 T- Z1 I: w" f
(A) denied9 i9 g9 T5 u2 E
(B) warned; F- X% l# }( f7 l. T# n
(C) complained( J" Z" Y+ H7 `" y; h1 I
(D) explained
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No two comets ever look identical, but they have basic features in common, one of the most obvious of which is a coma.
3 n' V* [' n: p0 z5 m" _The word "identical" is closest in meaning to which of following? v- ]! D2 t4 F# a8 i( z# Y
(A) equally fast0 R$ f8 F7 {/ d; g& g
(B) exactly alike7 X8 B* c: S! J+ V7 F; B) l
(C) near each other$ Y1 r* h- J8 y9 Q. n
(D) invisible& _- J6 w7 \3 @2 ~$ @3 c( |2 z0 t
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